Henry and Alice (“Allie”) Mc Clwain/Ilwain: 1900

Family of Henry and Alice (“Allie”) Mc Clwain: 1900
Valley Creek, Alabama

Henry Mc Clwain, 35
Alice Mc Clwain, 34
Pink “, 14
Alberta “, 15
Delhi “, 8
Mattie “, 5
Mary “, 4
Ada “, 3
Narca “, 2
Babe “, 1
Mealy Mc Clwain, 60
Lucy Morre, 50

Note: Alberta Mc Clwain/Ilwain is a cousin by marriage. Her husband is known by both “Wes/Wess” and “West” Martin. I am looking for more information on this family line. Henry and Alice Mc Clwain/Ilwain also lived in Selma.

Prayerful

Lynn Mari, © 2007.

Valley Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery * Land & Kin

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dallas/cemetery/valleycreek.txt

Valley Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Dallas County, Alabama

On Valley Creek Church Road, off State Hwy 22 North.
When you come out of Selma on State Hwy 22 North right outside the city limits to the left is Valley Creek Church Road. Turn left on that
road and go about four miles, The cemetery is on the right on a hill and you really have to watch for it or you will pass it.

Surveyed and recorded by Kay Pomeroy & Jean Pickering

Thank-you!

The Green, Martin, and Ford family lived throughout Dallas County in Valley Creek, Woodlawn, Summerfield and Selma. The history of my family begins in slavery, and has developed along farming, and the families whose land my ancestors worked.

This cemetary record of Valley Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery includes plots from the Crawford, Morgan and Kenan families of Valley Creek. These are the places my family would have worked and lived, along the gravel background leading into an isolated, wooded hamlet of farms. Other families in this cemetary include Waugh, Bondurant, Callen, Gilmer and others.

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James Ellis Crawford Nov. 26, 1859 Oct. 17, 1916. Dearest PAP thou hast
left us here thy loss we deeply feel but tis GOD who hath bereft us,
He can allour sorrows heal.

Note: My great-grandmother, Mary Ella Martin-Morton (Mel, Mary) worked on the Crawford Place in Valley Creek, off Rangeline Road. She raised several children there, including my grandfather. The Greens and the Martins are cousins, and would often visit each other.

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Roy R. Morgan Pfc. US Army World War II May 15, 1916 Dec. 1, 1988.

Daddy
John Lewis Morgan October 19, 1885 July 14, 1969

Mama
Vesta Crawford Morgan October 5, 1889 September 1, 1985

Infant son of John & Vesta Morgan Aug. 18, 1910

Note: An older cousin told me, that her family worked the land of John Morgan. I used her recollections when researching family history and found the families of Willie and Ethel Greene and of Sol Greene to live next to John and Vesta Morgan in Valley Creek My great-grandfather, Pettus Ford, is also said to have worked the Morgan Place.

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One head stone
William Josiah Rountree born July 10, 1843 died March 10, 1916
Confederate Soldier 1861 1865
Sarah Elizabeth Morrison wife of W.J. Rountree born Aug. 1847 died Feb.
26, 1914 She hath done what she could. Sarah Rountree

Jessie D. Rountree son of W.J. &s.e. Rountree Aug. 14, 1866 Dec. 2,
1929

Granville Allen Young Sept. 30, 1833 Feb. 4, 1922

Note: 1930 Census, Valley Creek (Dallas County), AL

Green, Lizzie b. 1891
Green, John b. 1864 (Husband)
Father: Grandville Allen
Nephew: Dock Green b. 1915

I think this family is kin. My Uncle Solomon “Sol” Green/Greene also had a son called Dock.

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Row 6

James Kenan, born 1808 in N.C. died 1874 in Ala.

Erected by his wife in memory of William K. Kenan, youngest son of Tho & Mary R. Kenan who was born in Duplin County North Carolina 27th of September 1819 died in Dallas County Alabama July 31st 1858. There is a voice which sorrow hears. When heaviest weighs life galling chains, tis heaven that whispers “dry your tears the pure in heart shall meet again” (on back) Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

D.L. Kenan, 1816 1910 Son of Mary Rand and Col. Thomas Kenan.
(Mary Rand Kenan)

Victoria Corr, wife of Danial Love Kenan May 5, 1843 May 1, 1935
(Victoria Kenan)

William Owen Kenan, Feb. 9, 1869 Dec. 16, 1923

Thom- AN 1812
(This stone is broken next to the Kenan’s)

Sarah L. Smith daughter of Col. Thomas and Sarah L. Kenan, who died the 20th of Nov. 1845 and composed firmly in the righteousness of Christ.

Sacred to the memory of our father Col. Thomas Kenan and our mother Mary Rand Kenan. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Col. Kenan was the son of Genl. James Kenan of Duplin County North Carolina. He was born on the 26th of Feb. 1771 and died on the 22nd of Oct. 1843 in the 73 year of his age. He frequently represented his native County in the Legislature and the Wilmington District in Congress. In Jan. 1833 He removed with his family to Dallas County Ala. where he resided at the time of his death. Mrs. Kenan was the daughter of John Rand and Elizabeth Hinton, she was born in Wake County North Carolina on the 17th of Jan. 1781 and died in Dallas County Ala. on the 21st of Sept. 1856 in the 76th year of her age.

Note: The Martins are said to have worked in Kenan’s Mill, grinding corn. The Green(e) lived in Summerfield near Kenan’s Mill, on a farm.

Happy Halloween 2007!

Hello Friends and Family,

I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween.

To me, it is strange to go trick-or-treating and see these houses, all lit up, and peek in the windows to see the comfortable family scenes and know, when you go back, you will be homeless. The feeling of having nowhere to go, and not belonging is so strong on Halloween. I see the warm glow, and smile when the children scamper to the door and seconds later head into darkness, into an unknown. That is homeless. The state of once having a home, once belonging in the warm and then being forced into the darkness, the cold.

I want to thank Dad for stopping over–I love seeing you! Nora and I went to 5 Halloween events, a community dinner and trick-or-treating. Nora has a costume but she decided to dress up as a “true princess” and wore one of my dresses. The dress is antique white and lacy, on Nora it looks like a wedding gown. I have fond memories of that dress because I wore it the time I visited family in Birmingham. I love old dresses and costume jewelry. My maternal great-grandmother passed down several pieces of costume jewelry after she passed and since, I have been an avid collector. I wore a vintage 70’s dress–lol* And “got down on it”!

The best part of the night was when Nora won the dance contest, not that she “won” but that her spirit was so into the music, just wanting to have fun. There were 6 kids in the contest, all dancing. Nora kicked off her purple, high heels to join in. DP got her the shoes for her birthday bc they look like Cinderella’s glass slippers. The vote was decided by applause and no one really knew Nora, so she didn’t get any cheer besides my wild antics. At first, Nora is running all over the room and doing ballet leaps. She even got down on the floor, and spun in a circle (remember when you did that Grandpa? I do!). When the judging got came down to two kids, Nora was not even considered. Somehow she knew there was something going on between these two kids, I’m not sure what was going on in her head. Nora put all her focus on the dance, it was a sight to be seen. She danced in circles around both kids–walk it out! She did figure eights around them. She twirled to the floor and back up again. Her feet were kicking in the air like throwing stars. Her hands were so graceful, dipping and swaying. She had this smile on her face of pure happiness. The DJ could not help but to notice Nora–the other kids stopped dancing to watch (and they were older!). What struck me was not how Nora was dancing but she was so happy, she danced because of her love for dance not for competition–it was like something out of a movie, and just watching you were caught up in this dramatic moment. So she won a squeaky flower toy–and my heart.

With Loving Prayers ()-:)

Lynn Mari, © 2007.